If you need to change a statically built executable, you can always patch it manually. This was how no-CD cracks worked back in the day. Yes, dynamic linking m

If you need to change a statically built executable, you can always patch it manually. This was how no-CD cracks worked back in the day. Yes, dynamic linking makes this process easier, but it makes it so easy that both users and distro maintainers regularly break software without even realising it (hence why Red Hat use 5-year old versions of everything).